A new study from the Yale School of Medicine reveals a biological struggle within tissue that allows some damaged cells to survive and proliferate, eventually leading to cancer. The study is published in the online edition of Cell Stem Cell.It is known...
In the largest genome-wide study of brain aneurysms ever conducted, an international team led by researchers at the Yale University School of Medicine have identified three new genetic variants that increase a person’s risk for developing this deadly...
Babies who sleep on their backs are less likely to die from Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), yet a quarter of all babies, especially those of African-American descent, are not placed on their backs to sleep. In a new study, researchers at Yale School...
Efforts to curb childhood obesity through school vending machine restrictions and making soft drinks more expensive with low levels of additional taxation have had a negligible effect, to date, on the waistline of America’s youth, a new study led by the...
Yale researchers have found that services to assist with daily living activities such as bathing, dressing and walking, are needed for all older persons at the end of life, regardless of the conditions leading to their deaths. The team also found that...
Throughout the yearlong debate on health care reform, the physician’s voice has largely been unheard. But now doctors have an opportunity to shape how reform efforts will translate for patients and society, maintains Cary Gross, M.D., associate professor...
Congresswoman Lois Capps (D-CA) will present the Sybil Palmer Bellos Lecture on Monday, April 19 at 3:30 p.m. at Yale University School of Nursing (YSN), 100 Church Street South.Congresswoman Capps’s talk is titled “Nurses Make the Best Advocates.” She...
A team of leading historians and public health professionals from the Yale Global Health Leadership Institute and Rwanda are urging that grand strategy - a comprehensive plan of action to achieve large ends with limited means - be incorporated into...
Yale Cancer Center scientists have discovered that OCT4, a protein critical in determining the fate of certain germ-cell tumors, is commonly detected and targeted by the immune system in healthy individuals. Their findings, published in the Proceedings of...
The molecular caps at the ends of chromosomes that protect humans against cancer and premature cellular aging show a surprising inability to protect themselves against ultraviolet radiation, a new Yale School of Medicine study has found.Telomeres—the...